Stop Online ID Checks
State Legislatures
Across the country, lawmakers are passing bills that require everyone to submit to age checks to access websites. Already, people in Louisiana, Indiana, and Virginiamust provide government ID to access certain apps and websites. Imagine opening up your social media of choice for a casual scroll and the app demands to scan your face. Or being asked to upload your government ID just to access an article or recipe. This censorship movement won’t rest until online ID checks wall off huge sections of the Internet, with the government as the sole gatekeeper. Information freedom no more.
Lawmakers are using kids as pawns to push these age-gating bills. But limiting access to information and mandating intrusive data collection doesn’t help kids—it makes them even less safe.
Tell your lawmakers: we need common-sense, privacy forward solutions, NOT ID checks for the internet!
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Laws that require websites to check IDs will make the internet less safe. They infringe on my right to information, require disreputable companies to collect intimate data on us, and limit our ability to freely access information and connect with people online. There is no consensus that age-gating makes people more safe—in fact, it exposes us all to more potential harms. I vigorously oppose any legislation that requires online age verification or other ID checks, and I call on my lawmakers to do the same. Instead of ID check bills, lawmakers should work to pass a strong, national data privacy law to protect us from the surveillance and exploitation of tech companies.